| Abstract |
The Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPH&P) of Yemen in collaboration with WHO implemented a survey
on Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) in July 2012. The objective of the SARA survey is to generate
reliable and regular information on service delivery such as the availability of key human and infrastructure resources, basic equipment, basic amenities, essential medicines, and diagnostic capacities; and on the readiness of health facilities ‘capacity for providing basic health-care interventions relating to family planning, child health services, basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care, Tuberculosis, malaria, and non-communicable diseases.
The SARA survey targeted 10 governorates including Abyan, Sa’ada, Sana’a (capital city), AlBayda, Taiz, Hajjah, Aden,
Lahaj, Amran and Al-Jawf. A total of 135 health facilities comprising of 20 general referral level hospitals, 25 district
level hospitals, one health center with beds capacity for in-patient, 83 health centers without in-patient beds capacity and 6 polyclinics were assessed.
This SARA report for Yemen presents the assessment findings at two levels:
1. At general level in the 10 governorates where the survey was conducted which provides an overall picture of the available services. Coverage indicators were not measured as the data is not representative of all the health facilities.
2. At the level of Abyan and Sa’ada governorates where we can also show the population coverage indicators as the data
represents all the health facilities. |
